Overview
- The series Feminist Review is the UK's leading brand in 'serious' feminist publishing
- New empirical work on thirdwave feminists' attitudes to religion and spirituality; Muslim women activists fighting poverty in Egypt; motherhood and priesthood in the Church of England; Muslim women's online responses to the antiIslam film Fitna; and Filipina careworkers' religious narratives of their lives in Israel
- Theoretical work on the relationship between feminism and secularism
- Pragna Patel of Southall Black Sisters writes on the impact on women's organisations of the contemporary focus on faith in the public sphere
- Autobiographical discussion of her travels and troubles with religion by Nira YuvalDavies
Part of the book series: Feminist Review (FENREV)
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Keywords
- feminism
- spirituality
- women
About this book
For the first time in its thirty year history Feminist Review devotes a special issue to religion and spirituality. This issue of Feminist Review, edited by Lyn Thomas and Avtar Brah, explores a range of religious and spiritual practices through the lens of gender, and encompasses both theoretical and empirical approaches. Recent work on the gendering of secularisation theories and on women's practice of faith and spirituality has complicated and nuanced feminist approaches to religion; this issue addresses these questions, while attempting to broaden the debate beyond the binary oppositions and alignments of religion (and most notably Islam) with tradition and 'backwardness', and of feminisms with modernity and secularism. Highlights of the issue are Nira Yuval-Davies on her travels and troubles with religion and Pragna Patel on the impact on women's organisations of the contemporary focus on faith in the public sphere.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feminist Review Issue 97
Book Subtitle: Religion and Spirituality
Editors: NA NA
Series Title: Feminist Review
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-31366-8Due: 21 March 2011
Series ISSN: 0141-7789
Series E-ISSN: 1466-4380
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 144